Hammock



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 J. A. BIDWELL- HAMMOGK.

Patented Dec. 31, 1895 ANDREW IGRAIIAM. PHO'I'DUTNQWASNINGTDNJL (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

' J. A. BIDWELL.

HAMMOGK.

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HAMMOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,229, dated December 31, 1895. Application filed October 1, 1895. Serial No. 564,800. (No model.)

2'0 (LZZ whom it may concern.- 3

Be it known that I, JOHN A. BIDWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide simple, durable, and efficient means for connecting the bed or body of a hammock, with its suspension-rings, in such manner that a continuous cord may be first looped back and forth and connected with the corresponding suspension-ring and then applied to the hammock bed or body and in such manner that the weight or load upon the hammock bed or body is well distributed between the various loops that radiate from the suspension-rings.

To this end my invention consists in the improvements hereinafter described and claimed. 7

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying draw ings, forming part hereof, in which Figure l is a perspective view of ahammock embodying features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken in the direction of the warps of the body of the hammock and showing a loop of the suspension-cord connected therewith. Fig. 3 is a view showing the suspension-loops before their application to the body or bed of a hammock and illustrating the same as comprised of a continuous cord looped back and forth onto a suspension ring or eye. Fig. 4: is a view illustrating the manner of looping the suspension-loops and showing the same with the hammock bed or body removed. Fig. 5 is a View of one of the suspension-eyes and portions of the suspension-cord in a completed state, and Fig. 6 is a detail view.

In the drawings, a is a hammock bed or body which may comprise a woven web and which is hemmed at its ends, as at 1), Figs. 1 and 2, by means of stitches c.

In Figs. 3 and 4, (Z, d, d (1 d, (1 cl and d are a series of loops radiating from a suspension-ring e and formed from a continuous cord ff. One end f of this cord is tied or secured to the suspension-ring or eye 6. It is then led off and back, Fig. 3, through the ring or eye 6, so as to form the loop d, which loop terminates in the bight g, and this operation is repeated to form as many additional loops as are required. Upon the completion of the last loop the end f of the cord is tied across the other loops, as indicated in Fig. 4, and shown in Fig. 5. Obviously the cord may be rapidly applied to the ring in the manner above described even by unskilled labor, whereby economy in production is insured. The bight g of the loop d is passed or inserted into the open end of the hem Z). The bight of the loop (1 is passed through the web of the body or bed and inserted through the bight of the loop at and then into the hem b, and each of the loops of the series is similarly applied, whereupon the last one g that enters the hem is secured to the remaining bight g for example, by means ofa clip h, Fig. 6, or knot h,- Fig. 4;. The bights g of the various loops are readily passed through the hem and through each other in the manner above described-for example, by means of a needlewithout requirin g any considerable expenditure for labor and with the production of an exceedingly neat and attractive appearance in the finished article.

Since the loops are all strung together and passed through portions of the hem, it follows that a load upon any portion of the bed or body is evenly-distributed among the-loops, because the bights of the latter may slip in respect to the loops that pass through them and thus effect a distribution of the load upon them.

If desired, a stretcher 2' may be inserted in the, hem b at one or both ends of the hammock and secured therein by sewing up the ends of the hem or otherwise. However, the stretcher may be dispensed with.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The herein described improved means for securing a hammock bed or body to its suspension eye which comprise the combination of, a hem at the end of the bed or body, with, bights of cord radiating from the eye and inserted into and part way through said hem and movably strung together by passing one ably strung together by passing one through IO through the other, for the purposes set forth. the other, for the purposes set forth.

2. Thehei'ein describedilnprovedlneans for In testimony whereof I have hereunto securing a hammock bed or body to its snssigned my name. pension e e which 0on1 rise the combination 7 V of, a hemgtt the end of the bed or body, a con- JOHN BIDXVELL' tinuous cord attached between each of its In presence ofbights to the eye and having its bights run A. 15. STOUGHTON, into and part \vaythi'ongh the hem and 1noV- K. M. GILLIGAN. 

